What makes good honey?

The pace of modern life is getting faster and faster, and many people have a sub-health state due to excessive work pressure, so more and more people have begun to pay attention to health preservation. When it comes to healthy food, honey must be one of them. When eating honey, some people will find that honey will crystallize, so they are worried that honey is not good, but some people say that crystallized honey is good.

So, is honey better crystallized or not?

1. Is honey better crystallized or not?

In fact, whether the quality of honey is good or bad is not based on whether the honey crystallizes or not. Honey crystallization is actually a very natural phenomenon because honey is rich in glucose. When glucose is in a saturated state, changes in the environment will affect the dissolution of glucose, and these insoluble glucoses will crystallize.

In addition, there are many different types of honey, and some honeys are easy to crystallize, for example, rape honey is relatively easy to crystallize, while acacia nectar is not easy to crystallize. Therefore, whether honey crystallization is good or not cannot be arbitrarily determined. Generally speaking, judging whether honey crystallization is good or not depends on the actual situation.

If the honey meets the conditions for crystallization, crystallization is normal, but if it meets the conditions for crystallization but does not crystallize, the honey is not good.

2. How to distinguish the quality of honey?

1. Smell: If you want to know the quality of honey, the first thing is to smell the honey. Generally, fresh honey will have a faint floral fragrance, which makes people feel very fragrant.

And if you use fake honey supported by flavors, there will be an abnormal fragrance, which is not difficult to distinguish.

2. Taste: To distinguish the quality of honey, it is indispensable to try the taste of honey. You can take a little honey and put it on top of your tongue, press your tongue against the roof of your mouth, and slowly send the honey down your throat.

If the taste is delicate, and there is a mixture of sweetness and sourness, and the aftertaste lasts for a long time after the mouth, it is good honey. However, fake honey will have a taste of sugar water, or a strong sour, salty taste.

3. Pick: Pick is to pick up a little honey with chopsticks or fingers, if the honey is drawn, it means that it is good honey, otherwise it is fake honey.

There is no honey mixed with sugar, because a lot of honey is now mixed with white sugar, which is shoddy.

Generally, good honey is relatively thick, so it is not very fluid when shaken, and good honey will crystalline, which is still quite easy to identify, and good honey will taste sweeter.

Honey has a very strong floral aroma. The thicker the honey, the less water you will add. The real nectar is in a gelatinous form with some luster.

Good honey is transparent or translucent in color, viscous liquid, has a botanical fragrance, tastes delicious and free of impurities, and produces some gas when shaken.

Natural honey is good, and there are many synthetic honeys on the market now, so it is recommended to identify them carefully. If you buy it, you can go to a regular shopping mall or supermarket and choose branded honey.

Honey that crystallizes naturally. It is thicker in the bottle, and it will naturally crystallize at room temperature below 10 or put it in the refrigerator to keep fresh, and melt naturally at room temperature above 20.

First of all, you can take a look at the active enzymes of honey, in the process of honey making bees, they will continue to add a variety of enzymes secreted by themselves, these active enzymes participate in a variety of life activities of the body, and occupy a very important part of the nutritional value of honey. During the process of filling and transporting honey, these active enzymes are constantly moving, resulting in a layer of fine bubbles on the surface that can be observed when you buy honey.

In addition, you can also take a look at the water content of honey, the water content of high-quality honey is relatively small, below 20%, the drawing is not easy to break the flow, and it can be quickly reflowed after breaking. If it is inferior honey, it is easy to break the flow of drawing, and the reflux is slower after breaking. This small method mainly looks at the water content of honey, and the little cutie who is interested can try it at home.

Of course, if you want to accurately distinguish the quality of honey, these alone are far from enough. At present, the most accurate identification of honey quality is detection and analysis, and the quality of honey can be accurately understood through the analysis of the components in honey by precision instruments.